I was scrolling on X the other day when I came across a post from Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Democrat and community organizer running for Congress in New York's 13th District.If she wins in November, she plans to abolish ICE, and she has been endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
She declared that "Hate has no place Uptown and in the Bronx" and that there is "no room for the hateful politics of the past." Sounds reasonable enough.Then something interesting happened.Filmmaker Eli Steele quote-posted her, highlighting the contradiction in the words above with previous comments by the would-be U.S.
representative.This is the same candidate who previously called the United States a "f---ing disgrace" and declared "ALL PIGS EVERYWHERE ARE HARAM" — meaning all police are impure, enemies of the people.Now she wants to wrap herself in the language of unity and anti-hate?MAMDANI STANDS BY FELLOW SOCIALIST CANDIDATE DESPITE RESURFACED FAR-LEFT, ANTI-AMERICAN POSTSThe hypocrisy is obvious.
What troubled me more were the replies cheering her on.Pastor Ben Dixon: "America is a disgrace....
what is the controversy?" Javier Soriano went further: "The United States of America has been a 'f---ing disgrace,' terrorist country since day one." What White Europeans did to Native Americans and black slaves was terrorism, he wrote.American foreign policy is terrorism.Reading those comments forced a hard realization: When did hating America become a virtue?I refuse to tell young people that their country is their enemy.
The moment I do, I have given them permission to give up.Instead, I tell them the truth: America is flawed, but it rewards builders.
(iStock)Anti-Americanism is not a political opinion.It is not legitimate critique.
It is a soul-rotting disease.And it has infected large parts of our communities for so long that many now treat it as normal.WATCH: KELLYANNE CONWAY INSISTS SOCIALIST PRIMARY VICTORIES DON'T REFLECT AMERICAN VALUES NATIONWIDEI know this sic...